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Born and bred in Red Houses (then Red House Estate) at a time when everyone took time and effort to keep their home and gardens beautiful.  Everyone knew everybody and it was a community that looked after each other.  I remember ...Read more

A memory of High Etherley in 1957 by Marjorie Richardson

I was born and raised in Redhill. It was a wonderful childhood and many great memories. I was born in 1941 at Thornton House. We lived on Ladbroke Road, and remember the fish and chip shop, Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1950 by Nadine Campbell

Early years - Nurse Britton was a friend as she was to most I believe. I was too young to be exact with memories but my gran lived opposite Whitemans shop which got hit by a bomb in the Second World War. I remember the garage which ...Read more

A memory of Bungay in 1951 by Gerald Wase

Born in Ablington just after the war we moved to Avon Banks, where I lived until married in 1970. My mother's father, mother and brothers (Fenners) all lived in Figheldean. Having read other peoples memories it brought back probably the most enjoyable part of my youth.

A memory of Figheldean in 1951 by Conrad Evans

Does anyone remember when the school in Wheatley was called the Wheatley Secondary Modern, all I hear about now is Holton Park. I can remember Mrs Jones the PE teacher, Mr Hanson was Headmaster. Seeing the pictures on this site really bought ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley in 1952 by Phyllis Elswick

I was born in the house on the corner of Woodfield Avenue and New Way Road in 1944 and lived there until the end of the 1970s. My birth was in fact on Friday the 13th of October, which coincided with the dropping of a V2 ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1958 by Jack Richardson

My father passed away in 1955. I returned from National Service in Germany in time to visit him in Winchester hospital, sadly my older brother Ron was a regular soldier serving in Hong Kong and could not get back in time to see ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1955 by John Scott

It was around this time that the tram lines were taken up from Sunderland Road in Gateshead. The men stored the old lines in Somerset Street and Devonshire Street. As boys we would dig up the tar from around the  streets ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1952 by Dave Southern

This is August 1953, I was 10. We were playing cricket on the clay field with some older lads, the stumps were iron and came from Spencers steel works which was nearby and stuff like this was easily got. Anyway I remember it was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1953 by Jimmy Burrows

I lived next door to Davenham Church, and one summer's day, when I was about 7, I went for a walk around the churchyard. Hearing a rustling noise on the ground, I crouched down, parted some long grass, and found a baby ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1959 by Lynn Quigley